St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-05
DAKOTA DOTS AND DAsHEs.
News Notes of Interest TO the PeOpl,
of the Great HerritOry

ON the 0Feat
Wolves are reported numerous in nearly all
sections this winter. Even in Ransom county
one night last week young man returning
to town from walk three miles in the conn
try to see his girl, was followed by several
wolves. He swung his lantern at them, but
it did not disturb their neighborly feeling.
He then drew his pocket-knife, but that only
whetted their curiosity. Of course he knew
they were harmless, but he then dashed his
lantern at them and his hair stood mp and he
run as if his life was at stake to the nearest
house. If there had been a purse up the
vulpine racers would have been badly left.
The young man will take the Lisbon battery
with him the next time he goes out into the
country at night to see his girl.
Many of the mail carriers on the shorter
routes have had serious times out on the
prairies in the billiards this winter. AS an
example, Mr.. Walsh, who carries IS miles
(all for S2) from Big Stone City to Travore,
was caught in blizzard and wandered, lost
in the storm all night. He came so near
freezing as to become sleepy and but for his
nerve in getting out and walking all the
night would have lost his life.
A man from Wisconsin town, about 81
years of age, lately came to one of the South
Dakota towns with girl of IA, who hardly
looked as old. and after some little trouble
found IL justice who consented to marry them
They came to Dakota because no license il
new measure urged in the legislature will cut
Off this sort of visitations, to the loss of jus.
tees and hotel men.
Farmers in Pembina county do not like to
pay the high prices asked for trees for plant
ing. The editor of the Hamilton News says
he has grown hundreds of thousands of
spruce burch and Scotch fir from the seed
He sows it broadcast like onion seed in bed.
The first year they grow about one and one
half inches and he puts them in rows about a
foot apart. The third year they can be
planted in the fields.
Mrs. Dell Myers, of Sargent, in the county
of that name, who not long since eloped with
Fargo, wrote to her mother that her object
was to get rid of her lever tired and shiftless
husband" She succeeded in this and re
turned TO Sargent to live with her mother
Her receipt is not likely to be Endorsed by
noralists, however effective it may be.
AS showing the rapid development of ont
of the Oldest sections in the North, the locality
about Buffalo, in western Cass. which is 81
proud of its legislator, w. j. Hawk, absorbed
800 draught horses shipped in from the states
| last season, and will need still larger nun.
Der this year. 1t will be some years before
| Dakota will be able to produce as many
! horses as it needs for home use.
The GAL post at Diana, in Sanborn county
passed resolutions not only urging the pass
| age of the dependent p(D sion bill over the
| presidents veto, but the passage of q bill
granting pensions to all persons who servet
in the war, regardless of their needs or con
dition since. This would seem to cover TIT
whole ground, provided the pensions arr
made large enough.
The temperance petitions to the Legislature
being so numerousy signed in the South
are in favor of the bill introduced by Mr..
Ward, of Turner county, or a similar meas
ure prohibiting the existence of breweries
distilleries or saloons under heavy penalties
! aud also prohibiting common carriers from
! bringing liquor into the territory under pen
atty of $1,000.
A party of Russians in one Of the ney
counties near the Missouri river was caugh
out in the bills by blizzard and camped tire
! da for the storm to subside. They use
| their sled to build fires, and, having no pre-
visions, killed one of the mules and live
high. AS the animal was worth ST5
wrenched them terribly to feed on so cost,
! meat.
There is q revival of the idea that bee
sugar can be made with great profit in Da
kota. The soil and climate are especiall
I adapted to root crops, and it is claimed this
from thirty to fifty tons of beets can be grow
to the acre. 1t would be well If there wer